Dave Burke - Freelance .NET Developer specializing in Online Communities

A freelance .NET Developer

Bypassing SharePoint Document Library Security to retrieve documents

I needed to provide external access to items from selected folders in a SharePoint Services 2.0 Document Library. I couldn't give read access to the entire library (our only option in WSS 2.0) because allowing them to browse the entire folder tree was not an option.  I found the best solution was to retrieve the binary directly from the WSS SQL database using the item's GUID.  Code and details on my personal blog post located here

 

Posted: Oct 29 2004, 09:08 AM by daveburke | with 2 comment(s)
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Eric Newton said:

Just make sure Microsoft knows about it, then they'll make constant internal workarounds to keep your code working, even years after nobody even uses it anymore <G>

[This is a post digging on Microsoft's constant backward compatibility, even in the face of sheer obsurdity... dont take it personally] ;-)
# October 29, 2004 12:52 PM

Dave Burke said:

Eric, No problem. Funny! When WSS supports a more flexible security architecture for WSS I'll be happy to refactor!
# October 29, 2004 1:52 PM
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